Treats

Antique Postcard


Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook, 1940.

Peanut Butter Cake
Sift together...
2 1/4 cup cake flour
2 1/8 regular flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp salt
add...
1/3 cup soft shortening
1/3 cup peanut butter
1 cup milk
beat 2 min.
add...
2 eggs
beat 2 mins.
Pour into prepared pans. Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 mins. square or oblong 35 to 40 mins.

Peanut Butter Fudge Frosting
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup milk or cream
1/3 cup peanut butter

Cook without stirring to a soft ball stage, keeping covered the first three minutes. Remove from heat. Let stand until cool. Add peanut butter when mixture is cool

A lot of Work

Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook, 1950.

Supper Dishes

Tossed Green Salad
Spaghetti with Meat Balls
Welsh Rarebit (in fondue pot)
Sub-gum and Fluffy Boiled Rice (lower left)
Sausages, Tomato Slices with anchovy Fillets, Toast - for Welsh Rarebit.
Serving of Rarebit
Assorted Sweet Pickles
Hot Tamale Pie

Hot Tamale Pie
Picturesque dish form Old Mexico...
Cook in 1 tbsp butter until golden brown
1 medium sized onion
1 green pepper
Romove from skillet. Add and brown...
3/4 lb. ground pork
3/4 il. ground beef
Add and simmer 20 min...
the browned onion and pepper
2 cups cooked tomatoes
2 ot 3 tsp chili powder
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 cup ripe olives, sliced
Line bottom and sides of a 2 qt. cassarole with corm meal mush. Pour in hot meat mixture. Top with remaining corm meal mush. Bake. Serve hot. Temp. 375 for 1 hour.

Corn Meal Mush
mix 1 cup cold water with 1 cup corn meal. Stir in 3 cups boling water, 1 tsp. salt. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture boils. Cover, cook over boiling water 30 min., stirring constantly.